kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2012 Part 2 - CLOSED (Page 21)

This I agree with - if it's unsafe, it's unsafe for everyone.  Cancel or modify as necessary, everyone runs the same race.  But do not allow deferrals.

Unsafe conditions ... hard to define, but unusually high temps, especially if temps haven't been consistent.  They cancelled the Chicago 13.1 last year in the middle of the race because it was too hot to quick ... they closed the course.  

Other reasons would include anything that would make a swim for the average swimmer difficult or dangerous, anything that would make the bike dangerous or more prone to crashes ...

Q1, I agree, races should be canceled in unsafe conditions, not unpleasant ones!

Q2, start up a conversation with the guy, if he seems receptive then offer some advice. 

Ok question...something I never really thought about (which is probably sad).  Finally got around to taking a look at the flat from my Quassy pre-ride...starting pumping up the tire when i heard a distinct hissing noise.  Looks like a nice sharp piece of gravel was my undoing (steep climb + gravel = hole in tire!)

So ..my question...what do you do if this happens in a race (clinchers- obviously)?  I've changed tubes before in a race (twice in one race..not fun!) but never had a tire go on me...patches don't work (they just bubbled up from the escaping air) does super glue work?  Or are you just SOL. 

Guess I'm on the trainer till I can get to LBS!!

Electric tape on the outside of the tire or putting a dollar bill on the inside of the tire.

Either is pretty effective.

GU Packet works well. Found this right before my Oly last year and booted it with a GU packet and it held up.

How many miles do you have on those tires?  There is a point where you need to just let go and buy new tires.  You'll be faster.... and new tires are more puncture resistant.  Check your break pads.  Your tires look like they have seen some heavy breaking.

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The numbers geek in me loves this site:

http://www.runtri.com/2010/07/runtri-benchmarks-easiest-ironman.html

That tire had around 400-500 miles on it at the time. We have terrible road surfaces here. 

Pretty cool - I just wish they had incorporated the non-IM brand races.

Interesting! Clicked through to the Kona data and the splits by age group was intriguing. 

That sure makes me want to run out and do Ironman St. George

Good morning.  Up at 4:15 for a 3000m swim.  Nailed my times with the paddle sets.  It's amazing how you feel after you take the paddles off and swim normally.......it feels like my hands are pebbles or something.  Anyway, strength training later today.  

You could do it.  Although its rank may go down because the run us MUCH easier this year than it was in the past two years.  Also I think the results are slightly skewed.  You'll notice that a lot of European IMs are in the "easy" category based on average times.  What the study doesn't take into account is that the cutoff for European IMs is often 15 hours rather than 17 hours so you loose the slowest competitors and the average times get "faster." 

First swim in 11 days today abd boy did I feel every stroke!!  Really focused on form rather then speed.

Have a bike fit tonight that should be interesting!!1

Why is the cutoff time 15 hours for European IMs?  

I am right there with you! Each run/bike gets better though!

1400 swim this morning. I was able to do 4x100's today with 30 seconds rest. I want to get to 5 and then start decreasing the rest in between before my first race! I worked on form after those with some pulls and kicks. 

Hope everyone has a great day!

Good morning everyone! I missed a lot of great discussion yesterday!!! 

1 hour spin followed by a 20 min run for me today! DONE! I hope everyone has a great day today!!